With press speculation mounting over how Vladimir Putin is going to play his opening speech in Davos at the World Economic Forum tonight, it will be exciting to see how the Prime Minister decides to play this momentous occasion. Not only wil...
TODAY: Russia to halt US retaliation plans; Church elects news leader; Russian military is a ‘paper tiger’; Russia-Georgia soldier spat; Putin ‘too trusting’.Russia has halted its plan to retaliate against a proposed US mis...
Here’s an excerpt from an editorial on the murder of Stanislav Markelov on VOA News which “reflects the opinion of the U.S. government” – Barack Obama’s government, I might add. The Russian people have spoken loudly i...
Based on the results of a survey by the analytical center of Yuri Levada, carried out last year, Russians named as the countries most unfriendly, antagonistically disposed towards Russia: Georgia, the USA, Ukraine, Estonia, the Baltic states...
From Brian Whitmore over at the excellent blog The Power Vertical: Putin and his closest allies revered Andropov (most of them joined the KGB in the mid-1970s when he ran the spy agency) and tried to establish a new version of his “authorita...
Some Russians seem to think that clandestine, byzantine networks of Republican elites control Washington like the siloviki run Russia. From Anne Applebaum in the Washington Post: Yet there was another, more negative category of foreign respo...
TODAY: Russia and NATO to resume ties by next month; Russia to build ‘illegal’ naval base in Abkhazia; new patriarch will be ‘alleged former KGB agent’; Storchak case re-opened; Putin and Medvedev ‘at odds’ abou...
It looks like we’re not the only ones paying attention to the parallel trends of violence and insecurity in both Russia and Venezuela. Today UNESCO chief Koïchiro Matsuura condemned both the murder of Stanislav Markelov and Orel Zambra...
The Other Russia coalition is running a comment piece by Olga Malysh on the death of Stanislav Markelov, looking at some of the theories currently being discussed among Russian journalists and human rights activists as to why he was killed. ...
In the run-up to April’s G20 meeting, Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin has proposed an alternative to the Financial Stability Forum, which, he points out, excludes the BRIC economies. Writing in Voprosy Ekonomiki over the weekend...
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